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Speculative Biography
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Author : Donna Lee Brien
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-30
Speculative Biography written by Donna Lee Brien and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
While speculation has always been crucial to biography, it has often been neglected, denied or misunderstood. This edited collection brings together a group of international biographers to discuss how, and why, each uses speculation in their work; whether this is to conceptualise a project in its early stages, work with scanty or deliberately deceptive sources, or address issues associated with shy or stubborn subjects. After defining the role of speculation in biography, the volume offers a series of work-in-progress case studies that discuss the challenges biographers encounter and address in their work. In addition to defining the ‘speculative spectrum’ within the biographical endeavour, the collection offers a lexicon of new terms to describe different types of biographical speculation, and more deeply engage with the dynamic interplay between research, subjectivity and that which Natalie Zemon Davis dubbed ‘informed imagination’. By mapping the field of speculative biography, the collection demonstrates that speculation is not only innate to biographical practice but also key to rendering the complex mystery of biographical subjects, be they human, animal or even metaphysical.
And Forget My Name
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Author : Stephen Scobie
language : en
Publisher: Ekstasis Editions
Release Date : 1999
And Forget My Name written by Stephen Scobie and has been published by Ekstasis Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
And Forget My Name concerns the life of Robert Zimmerman, the youth who would later be known as Bob Dylan. Through poetic interpretations and speculations, Scobie discovers a deeper truth behind one of the great living enigmas of our time.
History Of The Speculative Society
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Author : Speculative Society of Edinburgh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
History Of The Speculative Society written by Speculative Society of Edinburgh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Debates and debating categories.
Derivative Lives
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Author : Virginia Newhall Rademacher
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2022-07-14
Derivative Lives written by Virginia Newhall Rademacher and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The title of this book, Derivative Lives, alludes to the challenge of finding one's way within the contemporary market of virtually limitless information and claims to veracity. Amid this profusion of options, it is easy to feel lost in spaces of uncertainty where biographical truth teeters between the real and the imaginative. The title thus also points to the prolific market of biographical novels that openly and intentionally play in the speculative space between the real and the fictional. Drawing on theories of risk and uncertainty, Derivative Lives considers the surge in biofiction in Spain and globally, relating literary expression to concepts such as circumstantiality, derivatives, speculation, and game studies.
The Universe Of Things
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Author : Steven Shaviro
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2014-10-01
The Universe Of Things written by Steven Shaviro and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-01 with Philosophy categories.
From the rediscovery of Alfred North Whitehead’s work to the rise of new materialist thought, including object-oriented ontology, there has been a rapid turn toward speculation in philosophy as a way of moving beyond solely human perceptions of nature and existence. Now Steven Shaviro maps this quickly emerging speculative realism, which is already dramatically influencing how we interpret reality and our place in a universe in which humans are not the measure of all things. The Universe of Things explores the common insistence of speculative realism on a noncorrelationist thought: that things or objects exist apart from how our own human minds relate to and comprehend them. Shaviro focuses on how Whitehead both anticipates and offers challenges to prevailing speculative realist thought, moving between Whitehead’s own panpsychism, Harman’s object-oriented ontology, and the reductionist eliminativism of Quentin Meillassoux and Ray Brassier. The stakes of this recent speculative realist thought—of the effort to develop new ways of grasping the world—are enormous as it becomes clear that our inherited assumptions are no longer adequate to describe, much less understand, the reality we experience around us. As Shaviro acknowledges, speculative realist thought has its dangers, but it also, like the best speculative fiction, holds the potential to liberate us from confining views of what is outside ourselves and, he believes, to reclaim aesthetics and beauty as a principle of life itself. Bringing together a wide array of contemporary thought, and evenhandedly assessing its current debates, The Universe of Things is an invaluable guide to the evolution of speculative realism and the provocation of Alfred North Whitehead’s pathbreaking work.
The History Of The Speculative Society 1764 1904
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Author : William Watson
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2015-09-20
The History Of The Speculative Society 1764 1904 written by William Watson and has been published by Palala Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-20 with categories.
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Hist Of The Speculative Societ
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Author : Speculative Society of Edinburgh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-08-26
Hist Of The Speculative Societ written by Speculative Society of Edinburgh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-26 with History categories.
Monster She Wrote
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Author : Lisa Kröger
language : en
Publisher: Quirk Books
Release Date : 2019-09-17
Monster She Wrote written by Lisa Kröger and has been published by Quirk Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Meet the women writers who defied convention to craft some of literature’s strangest tales, from Frankenstein to The Haunting of Hill House and beyond. Frankenstein was just the beginning: horror stories and other weird fiction wouldn’t exist without the women who created it. From Gothic ghost stories to psychological horror to science fiction, women have been primary architects of speculative literature of all sorts. And their own life stories are as intriguing as their fiction. Everyone knows about Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein, who was rumored to keep her late husband’s heart in her desk drawer. But have you heard of Margaret “Mad Madge” Cavendish, who wrote a science-fiction epic 150 years earlier (and liked to wear topless gowns to the theater)? If you know the astounding work of Shirley Jackson, whose novel The Haunting of Hill House was reinvented as a Netflix series, then try the psychological hauntings of Violet Paget, who was openly involved in long-term romantic relationships with women in the Victorian era. You’ll meet celebrated icons (Ann Radcliffe, V. C. Andrews), forgotten wordsmiths (Eli Colter, Ruby Jean Jensen), and today’s vanguard (Helen Oyeyemi). Curated reading lists point you to their most spine-chilling tales. Part biography, part reader’s guide, the engaging write-ups and detailed reading lists will introduce you to more than a hundred authors and over two hundred of their mysterious and spooky novels, novellas, and stories.
Edmund Spenser
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Author : Andrew Hadfield
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2014-10-21
Edmund Spenser written by Andrew Hadfield and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"The first biography in sixty years of the most important non-dramatic poet of the English Renaissance"--From publisher description.
The History Of The Speculative Society 1764 1904 Classic Reprint
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Author : Speculative Society of Edinburgh
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-10-17
The History Of The Speculative Society 1764 1904 Classic Reprint written by Speculative Society of Edinburgh and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with Reference categories.
Excerpt from The History of the Speculative Society, 1764-1904 IT is sixty years since a History of the Speculative Society was published, and it has for a long time been felt that it would be of interest, not only to members, but to many who are not members, if that History were brought down to date. In 1864 the Society celebrated its centenary, and six years later a committee was appointed to consider the matter. In 1871 that committee reported that no new publication should then be undertaken, but that arrange ments might be made to collect information to be used when the proper time should come. The practical out come of this suggestion was the institution of the elaborate system of roll-books, minute-books, and report-books which is now in use, and which preserves a permanent record of all information of general interest concerning each 'member of the Society. For this system of records, which has furnished valuable material in compiling the present volume, the Society is mainly indebted to the secretary of that date, Mr. Charles J. Guthrie. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.